Wednesday, March 12, 2014

With so many great books coming out, how are you to know what to even be
on the look out for? Have no fear! Your faithful Young Adult librarians
have been searching ahead to make sure you stay on top of the great
teen literature that's out there! So, make note if you like what you
see, because soon these fantastic books will be appearing in a library
branch near you!

Foolish
love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for
its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal
girl—is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her
peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers,
sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for
what she might discover and naïve to the twisted motives of others.
Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel
and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the Summer
Solstice celebration. That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers
fill the air, and Ava’s quest and her family’s saga build to a
devastating crescendo. First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a
layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with
hearts that are tragically, exquisitely human.